Discover the inventors, business leaders, and ordinary workers who created our modern industrial world in a fascinating course taught by a top-rated professor.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Industrialization Is Good for You
- 02: Why Was Britain First?
- 03: The Agricultural Revolution
- 04: Cities and Manufacturing Traditions
- 05: The Royal Shipyards
- 06: The Textile Industry
- 07: Coal Mining-Powering the Revolution
- 08: Iron-Coking and Puddling
- 09: Wedgwood and the Pottery Business
- 10: Building Britain's Canals
- 11: Steam Technology and the First Railways
- 12: The Railway Revolution
- 13: Isambard Kingdom Brunel-Master Engineer
- 14: The Machine-Tool Makers
- 15: The Worker's-Eye View
- 16: Poets, Novelists, and Factories
- 17: How Industry Changed Politics
- 18: Dismal Science-The Economists
- 19: American Pioneers-Whitney and Lowell
- 20: Steamboats and Factories in America
- 21: Why Europe Started Late
- 22: Bismarck, De Lesseps, and Eiffel
- 23: John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
- 24: Andrew Carnegie and American Steel
- 25: American Industrial Labor
- 26: Anglo-American Contrasts
- 27: Electric Shocks and Surprises
- 28: Mass-Producing Bicycles and Cars
- 29: Taking Flight-The Dream Becomes Reality
- 30: Industrial Warfare, 1914-1918
- 31: Expansion and the Great Depression
- 32: Mass Production Wins World War II
- 33: The Information Revolution
- 34: Asian Tigers-The New Industrialized Nations
- 35: Environmental Paradoxes
- 36: The Benign Transformation
Taught by
Patrick N. Allitt
